Cpls. Eric Kincaid and Sally Mulholland found themselves in the right place at the right time Wednesday afternoon.

As they turned their Collier County Sheriff's Office patrol car out of a gas station and headed east on Creekside Parkway in North Naples, they saw two women frantically waving them down.

The corporals stopped in the parking lot of 1265 Creekside Parkway, where a woman told them her 17-month-old son was locked in her car. The vehicle was off, her keys were inside, and the doors automatically locked.

"Bless his heart, the poor little baby was sweating," Kincaid said. "His mom said he'd been sick. He had a lot of nose congestion — a lot of waterworks going on."

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Kincaid and Mulholland called Sheriff's Office dispatch for firefighters and EMS, but the boy had already been in the car about 15 minutes.

"No way were we going to wait," Kincaid said.

Kincaid used an agency-issued emergency window punch he had on his key chain to break the driver's side glass. They unlocked the doors, and the mom scooped the boy out of the car.

"We stripped him down, cooled him off, gave him a teddy bear," Kincaid said. "EMS checked his vitals, and he was OK."

Kincaid said the boy's mother was taking him to a doctor's appointment. She took the toddler to his appointment instead of having EMS take him to a hospital.

Wednesday's incident marked the second time Kincaid used his emergency window breaker in the 11 years he has been a patrol deputy.

He used the tool for the first time a few years ago, when he was dispatched to a crash scene near Pine Ridge Road and Shirley Street and noticed a woman passed out at the wheel. Her vehicle was turned off, and the windows were up, Kincaid said.

He broke one of the car windows and got her out before EMS took her to a hospital.

"Turned out she had a diabetic emergency," he said.

Kincaid said the window breaker tool has a button that users can push to shatter the glass and a blade that can slice seat belts. The tool can be bought online. Kincaid said he ordered a five-pack and keeps a window breaker on every key chain he has.

"With all these canals we have in Southwest Florida, someone could easily end up in water," Kincaid said. "It could be a life-saver."